[open-economics] works of Economics in Public Domain

Fri Jan 4 14:08:53 UTC 2013

Hi all,

Following on from my message re the Open Economic Texts, a few notes.

The spreadsheet has two sheets. The first is the list of works proper, 
the second has various URLS for sources of economic texts. The usual 
suspects are on there - archive.org, gutenberg etc - but where possible 
the url is to a specific economic category, eg
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Economics
These sources need to be sifted through and entries added.

I'd like to ask the list whether it is worth setting up a new page to 
list economists, as opposed to their works, with links to biographies 
and other useful material. I'm sure there will be many names that are 
unfamiliar to any particular reader, and I also think biographical data 
can elucidate the texts themselves.

Another possibility is to start a list of Economic Journals. Even those 
that are in copyright may be amenable to datamining.

I'd also like to ask who we could approach with a view to collaboration. 
For example, given that we're mainly dealing with public domain 
materials, wikisource may be interested in hosting the texts.

Here's the URL for the google doc again:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyRlUzT01hb2VPRWc

PS: Apologies for the blank message I sent to the list; slip of the finger!

Best,

John

On 04/01/2013 13:24, John Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Okay, I've taken the plunge, and started a google spreadsheet to list
> open economics texts, along the lines of that started by Open Philosophy:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah5rUXTj4nHcdElMN25kMHQ1T0NyRlUzT01hb2VPRWc
>
>
> (open phil doc at:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l4T2c&hl=en_GB#gid=0
> )
>
> I've put some entries in, but just as samples really. Please jump in and
> add what you can.
>
> Hopefully, when the spreadsheet has been populated, we can look at doing
> something similar to Open Philosophy with the texts.
>
> John
>
>
> On 04/01/2013 11:01, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> There have been numerous threads on which authors' works enter the
>> public domain in 2013 on our pd-discuss mailing list [1]. Presumably
>> economics authors would be a subset of this.
>>
>> It depends on which jurisdiction you're in, but if you're in a country
>> where death + 70 years applies, you could try looking for economists
>> that died in 1942 on DBpedia.
>>
>> Would be curious to hear how you get on!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] E.g. see:
>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2013-January/date.html and
>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2012-December/date.html
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com
>> <mailto:john at anterotesis.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 02/01/2013 12:36, Jia Lyng wrote:
>>      > Hi everybody, Happy New Year!
>>      > And Happy 2013 Public Domain new additions!
>>      >
>>      > I just got an inquiry from my other Econ networks, asking about
>>     authors
>>      > and works of economics accessible as public domain. Do you have
>>     such a
>>      > database?
>>      >
>>      > All best wishes,
>>      > jia
>>      > --
>>      > Berlin Chapter
>>      > Young Scholars Initiative
>>      > Institute for New Economic Thinking
>>      > +49 (0) 157 887 44 884
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>>      > twitter: @YSIBerlin
>>      >
>>
>>     Compiling (and mining) such a list is something I have wanted to do
>>     for a while. As far as I know, although there are many digitizations
>>     freely available on the net (eg on archive.org <http://archive.org>
>>     & google books), there isn't actually a database of them.
>>
>>     I'm waiting to see how open philosophy http://openphilosophy.org/
>>     and textus http://textusproject.org/ work; they could be the example
>>     to follow.
>>
>>     Although, of course, if there's sufficient interest now, I'd be very
>>     happy to work on such a project immediately.
>>
>>     John
>>
>
>

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